The intent is to honor those who have been the most instrumental in a young man being at the academy, |
The offensive line has played well. Coach (Pete) Hurt has done a great job with them. To me, the hardest place to learn to play in college football is in the offensive line. A lot of people just think it's pushing and shoving, but it's a lot of skill and a lot of exactness, a lot of technique and a lot of precision. We've done a good job. |
The other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did. |
Their defense had 11 Afro-American kids on their team and they were a very, very good defensive football team. It just seems to me that Afro-American kids can run very, very well. |
They're on top of the world right now and we're still clawing and scratching, but if you're a competitor, you want a shot at guy who is on top, |
They've got a lot of good players, ... Unfortunately they had a lot of injuries last year, and a lot of those players are back from injuries. They return 19 starters, so the cupboard is not bare. We'll have to be at our very best if we expect to stay on the field with them. |
This team has sort of had our number the last three years, |
was a productive thing for two reasons. |
We also understand that standards have to be maintained. We have to move on with our preparations for this season, but we'll do all we can to help Marcus continue his education at another school. |
We feel like we have some depth in our offensive line and obviously we have two good quarterbacks with game experience. That second unit built some pride. There are a lot of those second-unit guys that could be just as effective as the first-unit guys. We'll continue to use two units like that. What periods of the game we'll use them or when we'll use them, we're not going to say. |
We felt like we had some young players that were developing at the free safety position that might have a little bit more range and might give us the potential to get more interceptions back there. That's the main reason. |
We felt Mark was a pretty good tackler but unfortunately he didn't make a lot of things happen as far as getting interceptions and forcing turnovers and things like that, |
We get on our hands and knees and we wrap our arms around each other and we thank God for the opportunity of having competed that particular day. |
We had another breakdown in the kicking game, which really has me baffled. That was big, not being able to take advantage of those turnovers. (Utah) did. |
We had it in our grasp and we let it slip away. |